We built our garden boxes just over 6 weeks ago and planted our little kitchen garden a week later. Well today I had my first major harvest {if you can call it that}. 6 heads of romaine lettuce, 2 teeny tiny cauliflower and a handful of patty pan squash.
The weather has been crazy hot here in the Pacific Northwest region this summer with temps in the 80-90’s the last few weeks. The cauliflower I planted 5 weeks ago has had it rough… lot’s of greens, but not much in the cauliflower department. 
I finally gave in this morning and pulled our 10 cauliflower plants. The giant cauliflower leaves were taking up space in the garden with hardly anything to show for it but 2 teeny tiny heads. 
Oh well. Some years you win, and other years you lose.
I’m thinking about planting some seed potatoes in the open space. I know the spuds will grow well alongside the cucumber plants, but according planting potatoes next to tomatoes is sort of a no-no as they can be susceptible to the same verticillium fungus infections.
But I’m a risk taker so I think I’m going to go for it and see what happens. Live and learn, right?
I also harvested a few patty pan squash as well. I like to chop the up the squash and saute them in a little olive oil and garlic and serve the patty pan squash as a side dish. 
It’s not a big harvest, but considering this is our first kitchen garden at this house, I’m pretty excited about it. You have to start somewhere, right?
Keep Calm and Garden On,
~Mavis
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